Black Friday Gun Sales Set New Record

[etrain16]

According to Bearing Arms:

Despite grim warnings in the weeks leading up to Black Friday, the FBI is reporting their National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) processed 185,713 total background checks on firearm purchase this year. That's more background checks run on a single day since the system was launched almost two decades ago.

Source: Media be Damned! Firearms Consumers Prove They Can't be Predicted

NBC News was quoted in the same article with this:

There are reports that unconventional buyers have buoyed gun sales after Trump's victory. NBC News found some gun store owners saw a surge in African American customers after the election, fearing for their own protection out of a belief that Trump's victory will embolden racists to attack minorities.

As far as I can tell there has been no verifiable rise in attacks on blacks or minorities since Trump's election, so it seems those fears, fueled by the media, are largely unfounded. I have read numerous instances of false reports to the police about supposed hate crime events that never actually happened - presumably to try and make the false narrative of increased hate crimes seem to be true. For shame.

So fear of Trump is their excuse for the increase in sales. I guess that may be a possibility. I have a former co-worker that was reaching out to folks on Facebook asking for someone to get her a gun and train her to use it right away as she and her family are now in immediate danger since there is a trans person in the household. That seems like excessive fear to me, but I suppose some folks feel that way. For the record, she has always been anti-gun.

I'm just happy to see numbers up, especially if it represents a lot of first time buyers. Maybe we can start to get some momentum toward a more positive view of gun ownership.

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[cookie]

The media is usually wrong and the medias job is not to inform but to brain wash its idiot audience. I am waiting to see what is done by our newly filled swamp.

 

[mjbskwim]

There are reports that unconventional buyers have buoyed gun sales after Trump's victory. NBC News found some gun store owners saw a surge in African American customers after the election, fearing for their own protection out of a belief that Trump's victory will embolden racists to attack minorities.

Maybe if blacks hadn't felt "emboldened " to attack white folk while they had a black president,they wouldn't be worried so much?

 

[bolus]

2.56 million. on par for the year. Feb 2016 was still higher.
NICS Firearm Checks: Month/Year

Also, the person at the FBI that makes these reports is a good worker. Every first of the month in the morning they are published like clockwork. Unlike Oregon and the FICS reports which may show up a few months later.

 

[PaulB47]

It's good news! Gun control is dead!

 

[Dungannon]

2.56 million. on par for the year. Feb 2016 was still higher. NICS Firearm Checks: Month/Year

Hmm. NICS checks went from 8,910,191 to 12,709,023 in the eight Bush II years. After flogging an anti-gun agenda for eight years, Obama has managed to raise the annual number from 14,033,824 to 24,767,514 [and that's with one month still to go this year]. Nice!